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NewsNew lantern Shines Light on seawork
Tideland Signal, recently relocated from Redhill to Burgess Hill UK, will be travelling yet again in June as it debuts and demonstrates its new MLED-120E lantern at seawork2003. This new version of its successful diode-based range of lanterns offers long life, low maintenance and high efficiency.
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VT TSS Relocation in July
Motion sensor specialist VT TSS (UK) is to relocate this July from Witney, Oxfordshire to the Watford premises of associate company, S G Brown.
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NewsPrecise Heavy Lift Placement Off Qatar
Smit Heavy Lift''s Marine Projects Department completed the loading, dry tow, offloading and placement of a permanent production facility (PPF) in the UAE last month. The contract was awarded by the Anadarko Qatar Energy Company of Dubai.
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NewsPerkins Gensets for USA Tug
The Seattle USA based marine fuel transportation and services specialist Olympic Tug and Barge has installed new Perkins Sabre gensets on board their vessel Sarina, a tug used to transport lubricating oil, diesel fuel and ships'' stores.
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IESSG Funding Grants
The Institute of Engineering Survey & Space Geodesy at Nottingham University is offering a range of funding opportunities for its postgraduate degree, diploma and short courses for 2003-4.
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Felixstowe To Lift TEU Total
The Port of Felixstowe UK is undertaking a major expansion of its container handling capacity, ordering three Ship to Shore Gantry Cranes (SSGCs) and 10 new Rubber Tyred Gantry Cranes (RTGCs) from the Zhenhua Port Machinery Company (ZMPC) of Shanghai. The latest order is part of the Options provided in ...
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NewsDutch Launch Small Marine Genset Range
Brinkmann & Niemeijer Motoren b. v. of Twello in the Netherlands has developed the new Triton range of small gensets specially for the marine market.
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Dolphin Pods Successful in Sea Trials
The first two Dolphin podded propulsion systems jointly developed by STN Atlas Marine Electronics and Wartsila Propulsion have successfully completed sea trials aboard Seven Seas Voyager, the new 50,000gt cruise liner for V Ships Leisure/Radisson Seven Seas which is due to commence service this month.
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Diesel Electric Power for US Platform Supply Vessels
Alstom has won a $20m order to supply the propulsion and control systems for 10 new diesel electric platform supply vessels being built by Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Company of Alabama USA.
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NewsUnion Manta is Delivered to URS
On Sunday 23 March the anchor-handling tug supply vessel Union Manta arrived at her home port of Antwerp following completion at the Orskov shipyard in Frederikshavn, Denmark.
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NewsDeep Freeze Dredger Designed for Defiance
VOSTA LMG will deliver a CSD350 cutter suction dredger this month to a Russian customer who has specified that the vessel must be able to operate in Siberia at temperatures as low as -40ºC.
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Newsseawork Exhibition Debut for the Workboats' Friend
A first time exhibitor at seawork2003, West Sussex based Expresslube UK Ltd has developed and built a portable separator system which is taken to site for treatment of contaminated fuel tanks. Contaminants diminish engine performance and reliability and can lead to failure at critical times.
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NewsCroatian Shipyard Penetrates Ferry Newbuild Sector
The Viktor Lenac Shipyard in Croatia, best known for its repair and conversion work in Europe but also a builder of small specialist vessels, has now revealed it has also penetrated the market for ferry new buildings and said demand in that sector is expected to rise.
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Cosalt Safety & Protection Lands a Fishing Net Specialist
Cosalt Safety & Protection has acquired specialist fishing net company Leach & Turner (Fishing Gear) Ltd. The deal complements Cosalt''s existing fishing business in the UK South West and provides additional expertise in the gill net market as the company focuses on delivering a comprehensive range of services under the ...
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Snappy Conversions for German Cutters
German fishing authorities in Cuxhaven were reported very satisfied with the way German shipyard Bremerhavener Dock GmbH (BREDO) lengthened and converted three of their cutters and put them back into service on time, all inside just six weeks.
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NewsNew Pollution Control Vessel Joins Greek Fleet
The newbuild oil pollution control vessel Chrissi Akti Z has gone into service in Greece equipped with an oil spill containment and recovery package supplied by Vikoma International Ltd.
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Hamworthy KSE Non-Core Sales Continue
Hatlapa Uetersener Maschineenfabrik and Becker Marine Systems of Hamburg have purchased the starting air compressor and Schilling rudder business from the UK''s Hamworthy KSE Ltd last month. The partnership between Hatlapa and Becker made it possible for both companies to stand together as a mutual buyer for the two different ...
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NewsDaewoo Re-Power for 'Forth Constructor'
Briggs Marine Contractors have re-engined their multi-purpose barge Forth Constructor with a pair of Daewoo marine engines supplied by Daewoo''s South Devon UK distributor WaterMota Ltd. This is the third set of Daewoo engines WaterMota has supplied to Briggs Marine.
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NewsNew Escort Tug Under Construction for Norwegian Owners
Norwegian tug owners Bukser og Berging AS have entrusted Moen Slip A/S of Kolvereid, with the construction of the new ''state of the art'' escort tug. One of the world''s most advanced vessels of its kind, the new tug will serve the Statoil Mongstad Oil Terminal and replace the escort ...
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New Joint Venture Company Established
Innovation 4C, a new European joint venture company which aims to be a ''technology hothouse for the marine industry'' according to its Chief Executive, Stuart Heaver, has been established with headquarters at Whitstable, Kent. It''s an amalgam of Verhaert of Antwerp, Belgium, 02 Marine Services in Kent and Fairwater Technology ...
